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Tuesday, November 8, 2006

CodeSmith 4.0 Released

CodeSmith 4.0 has been released today at the Dev Connections conference in Las Vegas. Here are just a few the new capabilities in CodeSmith 4.0:

  • CodeSmith Projects (.csp) - This feature makes automating your code generation process really easy and consistent whether you are working from inside of Visual Studio 2005, MSBuild, Windows Explorer, a command line / batch file, or CodeSmith itself.
  • ActiveSnippets - Imagine Visual Studio 2005 snippets, but with the full power of CodeSmith available to execute any logic or access any complex metadata (including database schema and xml data) to control the output of your snippets.
  • CodeSmith Maps (.csmap) - This feature will allow you to create dictionary style maps of things like SQL to C# data type mappings.
  • .netTiers 2.0 - The .netTiers templates have been greatly enhanced and included with CodeSmith 4.0.
  • Extended Property Management - You can now edit and add new schema extended properties inside of CodeSmith Studio.
  • Property Persistence - CodeSmith now remembers the property values from the last time you executed a template.
  • CodeSmith Studio - Improved IntelliSense and improved overall performance.

Official Press Release

CodeSmith Standard and Professional 3.x customers who purchased the product on or after September, 8th, 2006 are eligible for a free upgrade to the equivalent CodeSmith 4.x version. Customers who purchased before that date can upgrade CodeSmith Standard 3.x for $25 and CodeSmith Professional 3.x for $99. If you would like to upgrade your license, please use the upgrade form.

Friday, May 12, 2006

CodeSmith Wins "Best Utility" Award

Readers' Choice AwardsCodeSmith has won the "Best Utility" award in the asp.netPRO Readers’ Choice Awards! Thanks to our incredible user base, CodeSmith was able to win this category that included many other great software development products. Thank you to everyone that voted!

 

 

 

Monday, February 13, 2006

.netTiers Tutorial Available

In this tutorial you will learn how to generate a best practices Data Access Layer (DAL) using Microsoft’s Enterprise Library in less than 15 minutes with CodeSmith and the .netTiers template library.

CodeSmith and .netTiers will:

  • Implement Microsoft Patterns and Practices including full Enterprise Library integration
  • Generate stored procedures for all CRUD operations including common queries based on indexes and foreign keys with server side paging support
  • Generate fully documented feature rich Data Access Layer (DAL) components that support serialization, binding, sorting, paging, and deep loading / saving
  • Generate strongly typed collections
  • Generate web service APIs for your Data Access Layer components (DAL)
  • Generate a full suite of NUnit tests for your Data Access Layer components
  • Generate a complete NAnt build script to compile, test and generate CHM/HTML API documentation
  • Allow for custom code that will be preserved during re-generation
  • Generate Visual Studio Solution and Project Files

Read the .netTiers tutorial

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